The Showman and the Slave

Autori

• Benjamin Reiss

Parametri

• Biografie e pensieri
• Razza, Razzismo
• Saggistica
• Storia
• Storia degli Stati Uniti

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Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. The newly emerging commercial press turned her act into one of the first media spectacles in American history.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2010

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